ath10k: Firmware crash after removing VAP

[Ben Greear]

On 07/17/2013 10:12 PM, Michal Kazior wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On 17 July 2013 23:20, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
>> I had vap1 on an ath10k NIC, and wlan2 also existed.  I deleted
>> the vap1, and very shortly afterwords, the firmware crashed:
>>
>> ath10k: firmware crashed!
>> ath10k: hardware name qca988x hw2.0 version 0x4100016c
>> ath10k: firmware version: 1.0.0.636
>> ath10k: target register Dump Location: 0x00401930
>> ath10k: target Register Dump
>> ath10k: [00]: 0x4100016C 0x00000000 0x0098EEF0 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [04]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [08]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [12]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [16]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0098EEF0
>> ath10k: [20]: 0x00000000 0x00401930 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [24]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [28]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [32]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [36]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [40]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [44]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [48]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [52]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>> ath10k: [56]: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000000
>
> This dump looks suspicious. Are you using vanilla kernel or do you
> have a ath regulatory hack patch from OpenWRT applied? If so the
> channel scan list is not sent to the firmware and this will cause
> firmware to crash.

I had some of my own patches in the 3.11 kernel.  I tried the vanilla ath
kernel from github and it crashes when adding a second station.

Can you (or whoever has firmware access) get something resembling a
stack trace from the firmware dump to see where it's crashing?

Has anyone been able to successfully use more than one station with
ath10k so far?

Thanks,
Ben

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